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The marshal of Mottson argues with Anse to get him to move the stinking coffin out of town.

Albert works at "the fountain" - that is, the counter where one can buy ice cream or a soda - in Moseley's drugstore in Mottson (199); he is also the person who tells Moseley about the altercation between the marshal and Anse in front of Grummet’s hardware store.

Moseley is the Mottstown pharmacist who lectures Dewey Dell when she comes to his drug store seeking an abortion. He narrates one chapter in the novel and tells us that he is "a respectable druggist, that’s kept store and raised a family and been a church-member for fifty-six years" (202).

Eustace Grimm "works at Snopes' place" (192) and brings Anse the team of mules he traded for with Mr. Snopes. (In two later texts he will be indentified as a member of the Snopes family by marriage, but there's no indication of that connection in this novel.)

Suratt is a salesman and peddler from whom “Cash aimed to buy that talking machine” (190). He does not actually appear in this novel, but under one or the other of his two names, Ratliff and Suratt, he appears in 9 other Yoknapatawpha fictions, especially the ones with a connection to Frenchman's Bend.

Lula Armstid is the wife of the farmer Armstid. The Bundren's stay at their farm. She tends to Cash after the river crossing, but tells her husband that Anse "should be lawed" - that is, arrested - for the way he is "treating" his wife's corpse (187). Mrs. Armstid appears in 6 other Yoknapatawpha fictions, here as Lula but in Light in August as Martha.